Algorithms Unlocked (MIT Press)

Author

Thomas H. Cormen

ISBN-10

237

ISBN-13

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Year

2013-03-01

Pages

Have you ever wondered how your GPS can find the fastest way to your destination selecting one route from seemingly countless possibilities in mere seconds How your credit card account number is protected when you make a purchase over the Internet The answer is algorithms And how do these mathematical formulations translate themselves into your GPS your laptop or your smart phone This book offers an engagingly written guide to the basics of computer algorithms In Algorithms Unlocked Thomas Cormen coauthor of the leading college textbook on the subject provides a general explanation with limited mathematics of how algorithms enable computers to solve problems Readers will learn what computer algorithms are how to describe them and how to evaluate them They will discover simple ways to search for information in a computer methods for rearranging information in a computer into a prescribed order sorting how to solve basic problems that can be modeled in a computer with a mathematical structure called a graph useful for modeling road networks dependencies among tasks and financial relationships how to solve problems that ask questions about strings of characters such as DNA structures the basic principles behind cryptography fundamentals of data compression and even that there are some problems that no one has figured out how to solve on a computer in a reasonable amount of time